Other Gargoyles-verse: Hospital: Checking Up

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The ability to travel freely and unmolested in the modern world was a new enough concept to be novel to Goliath.  For Elisa, it was nearly heartbreaking.  She'd lost this world.  She held no reservations about the fact that she'd become a Gargoyle.  Though she had lost much, her relationship with Goliath, the Clan, and the lives she'd help save more than made up for it.

All the same, being able to simply walk through a human hospital and get only the occasional odd glance (some of which was no doubt due to their resemblance to the very human Goliath and Elisa Maza of this world), was a miracle indeed.

"Hope ah, Lex is okay..." Elisa said.

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"I don't wanna leave Papa." She clung harder, sounding tearful. "I don't wanna.... He smiles when I'm here."

"He knows you need to sleep, (baby). And so does baby brother." Her mother rubbed her belly and tried to stifle a sigh, then she blinked and did a double take as she looked at Goliath. "Oh... what happened?"

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Goliath was rather flustered by this, but quickly demonstrated an ability to think on his feet. "Nothing has happened, ma'am. I assure you, the resemblance is entirely coincidental."

Elisa's attention remained focused on the girl. "Shhhh... It's gonna be okay, kiddo. Gotta do this one for your mom, okay?"

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"Oh." Alas's mother blinked and flushed. "Sorry."

The child was sobbing quietly, obviously trying hard not to. "Please?"

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Technically an untruth, of course, but far less complicated than explaining the idea of alternate realities. "Do not worry about it," Goliath replied. "It happens all the time."

Elisa gave the kid a hug. "I know you wanna stay, sweetie... But it's not up to me. You have to listen to your mom."

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The mom in question nodded to Goliath, then tried her hardest to crouch down at her daughter's level, only to wind up nearly falling over backward.

"Och!" Hudson was suddenly there, scooping her up. "Easy, Maria, I've got ye."

"Is she hurt?" asked Franklin worriedly.

"N... no." She blinked and looked around, trying to get reoriented.

And Alas gaped with horror at what had happened, her little face showing total shock.

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For the briefest moment, Elisa tensed at the sight of Franklin, images of Thailog and all the pain he had caused them rushing through her mind. But then memory of where she was settled in and banished those thoughts.

She placed a reassuring hand on the girl's shoulder. "Sssh. She's okay."

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The big white-haired gargoyle didn't even really look like Thailog anymore. Especially not with that dorky Hawaiian shirt. But it was his gentle concern for Maria as Hudson set her on her feet that really showed the difference.

"I'm okay," she said, her accent showing a little more in her stress. "Really, baby and I are okay."

"I'll go home," said Alas, pulling away from Elisa and going to her. "I'm sorry."

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Well, that would have been one of the big indicators.

"You sure you're all right?"

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"Yes. Thank you." Maria put a hand down to hug her daughter as the little one glomped onto her leg.

"Here, let me take ye down and see t' it ye get a taxi," said Hudson gently. "Franklin, will ye take yer uncle 'n aunt t' see Lex?"

"Huh? Oh." Franklin got his focus shifted with difficulty and offered Elisa and Goliath a shy grin. "He's awake now. He's not talking to anybody yet, not even his girlfriend...." His shoulders drooped a bit. "He won't even yell at me for calling her that."

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Elisa almost chuckled, before remembering the overall seriousness of the situation. "Better than nothing, I suppose."

"You must hold out hope, Franklin," Goliath added.